This book addresses a central concern in the work of Italy's most important contemporary novelist, Italo Calvino. It investigates the relationship between the visual and the textual in Italo Calvino's oeuvrea key aspect of the author's multidimensional writings.
Le Square Introduction Part I: Image
1. Calvino's Colours
2. Colours,
Landscapes and the Senses in Difficult Loves
3. The Visual in Cosmicomics:
Myth and Classical Rhetoric
4. Images and Scientific Knowledge in Calvino
5.
Recreating Visibility in Literary Translation: How to Code Space in Italian
and in Danish
6. The Significance of Visibility: Interpreting the Image in
Calvino Part II: Eye
7. Innanzi Tutto, Aprire Leggermente, Ovvero...
Contemplations About Language: Verbosities, Infelicities, Nonsensicalities,
Oddities
8. Calvino at Play: Rules and Games for Writing in Space
9. The
Dizzying Gaze: Calvino's Thesis, the First Novel, and Conrad as a Model of
Visibility
10. From the Vantage Point of Hindsight': Viewing Calvino's
Landscape
11. Leaning from the Steep Slope...': The Fall of the Cartographic
Eye in Calvino's Late Works
12. Language and the Brain's 'Mental Cinema' Part
III: Art
13. From Picasso to Dürer: Calvino's Book Covers
14. Italo Calvino
and the Fantastic Iconology of Cartoons
15. The Photographic Image: Calvino
'in Dialogue' with Barthes, Sontag and Baudrillard
16. Ekphrasis: The Problem
of Representing Visual Art in the Works of Italo Calvino and Per Hųjholt
17.
Signs and Visuality in Italo Calvino's Narratives
18. Calvino and Klee:
Variations of Line Part IV: Ekphrasis
19. The Painter of Absence
20. The
Arrow in the Mind: A Review of 'The Mechanism of Meaning'
22. Calvino's
Apartment in Rome: An Imagined Space
Birgitte Grundtvig
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